a typical day...

Oh and my day went like this:
4:30am- got up, got dressed and all that, stumbled upstairs, jugged the rest of moms coffee
5:00-got to work, the computer was really slow (like me).
6:00 ish-getting busier at work, everyones starting to get in.
8:00-busy busy busy, no time for anything, 11 people waiting for me to answer, they arent doing their jobs, making my job harder.
9:00-hang out with beth a bit, talk about her czech friend, and the new czech words he taught her.
10:00-2:00- busy busy at work again, lazy agents again, too many calls, and 2 supervisor calls that could have been avoided if the agent didnt put them on hold for sooooo long ( I would hate being on hold for 15 min too if I had better things to do).
2:00pm-go in the van, drive off to abby, rent chairs and tablecloths for wedding with momma.
3:00-visit grandma, she shows me her pretty silk blue flowers she made for the cake table.
5:00-get to mcdonalds for mc happy day (an excuse to get happymeals for everyone to support the ronald mcdonald childrens house things). The Mc donalds toys were cute, shrek and the cat we have right now. Need to see shrek 3!!! Spider man 3 --NOT WORTH IT - :P
6:00-hop on msn, nobody really there, read blogs and stuff...
7:30-shower, find a spider in the bathroom, I am needing a dustbuster or something smaller than can suck up a spider, cause I hate squishing them and then cleaning spider guts.
8:00- America's Next Top Model!!! One episode left after this one.
9:00-Bedtime and then we get to do it all over again

There aria, there ya go.

Lock down confirmed!!!!

Reports are correct folks!
Some stupid children brought toy guns to the Highschool down the road.
The streets are blocked off and the cops had all the kids in school lined up and were frisked and searched.
Mikaela, I am sorry I was doubtful, I didnt think that this would happen to us, let alone, a school down the road from us.

Stupid kids. Hope they are punished for freaking out the whole community.

Lockdown

Mikaela says some kid pulled a gun at her elementary school today. She says this explains the helicoptors flying around above the school. Hmmmm...Shes also upset that the school is doing a mock lockdown incase this kind of thing happens, but the mock lockdown happens tomorrow.
Hmmmm I wonder whats got helicoptors flying around above the school. I can hear them, I live down the block from the school.
Dad and Mik went to investigate....

we shal see.....

fierce

I wish all my cats were kittens.

Dashboard Confessional - Stolen

I love these guys, this is by far my favourite song from them.

shrine

In the living room, we have a big shelf full of knickknacks and candles and pictures. Since Aria is gone, we have been collecting things to give her in her little packages.
Mom will forget unless its somewhere she can see it all, so we throw it all on the top shelf.
We accumulated quite a bit of stuff up there, mom lovingly calls the shrine of Aria.

Well, I was being silly and made it look more like a "real shrine". hehehee

But something was still missing....CANDLES!!! hehehee Mom was a little weirded out, and made me take it all down after I was done with the camera. She was giggling though.

I didn't have incense, but thats ok, I dont like it anways, it can get a little too strong for me.

Oh, and wedding stuff is getting done slowly. Have a MC, and getting the pastor done this monday, and then on to other things like cake, dress altering, and finding of tuxes (not mobster ones that tony wanted---I dont even know what he means by that, and he doesnt either, his friend thought they were cool.) Pfft...Boys. They can have sunglasses and be "cool". I am looking forward to getting the cake and food stuff all done. Gotta dig up them white mini lights I used to have in my room. (Used to have them nailed up around the room in the townhouse,they were white and some were rainbow). Oh the decor of a 15 yr old.

Night of the Meatloaf

Normally I dont like cooking dinner when I am told I have to.I like doing it when I want, not when I am told. This will change of course when me and Tony are on our own, and I will have to get used to it. So, I found the loaf pan and Aria's meatloaf recipe card, and went to work at it.

Never had made something like this before. This dinner is more hommade than what I am normally accustomed to making (sidekicks and frozen veggies mixed together, and I like to believe they are "good for you" when you add veggies, but man, they must be high in sodium and chemicals, but the veggies must be good.)

I hate mixing things with my hands because I hate the feeling of meat under my fingernails, and my fingernails are short. :P I was mixing away, the meat felt like brains, it was cold. I was by myself for a while and noticed that the

Cat was overseeing the whole operation. She loves sitting up there on the cabnet beside the fridge, cause its warm. Tony came upstairs and I recruited him to be my potato minion. He peeled them all so nicely for me :) I tend to peel my fingers cause I am careless. He did well and didnt peel fingers.

Hes here for a bit because hes done school for a bit.


This over here is my meatloaf with "aria's secret sauce". The recipe card was quite cute, but I cannot post it due to the secrecy of the recipe.

Mikaela, who is picky about things with sauce on them, approved of the meatloaf.

There you go Aria, it was a success. I also enjoyed making dinner, and might even do something like this, again. Hurray for food thats not prepackaged!!! hehe and as I write this, I am going to make me some sidekicks and veggies for lunch tomorrow. Oh well.

In aria's room

I hope you enjoyed my photoshoot in Aria's room. I just watched the taped "America's Next Top Model" and felt inspired. Although I am far from model, it was so fun to dress up in Aria's clothes and mess up her closet (only a little and yes we put it all back). We didnt snoop as the picture implies, mom suggested it as she got to be the photographer. Could have gotten a better shot of the cat if she hadnt been so upset that I held her for all of 30 seconds. Stupid camera shy animal.

Anyways, I am going to get to bed, getting up early tomorrow :P

RRROLL up the Rim to win...

Ya right! I was doing well this season, won a few for my mom and dad, but one day, I rolled up the rim prematurely...a third of the coffee left. Since then, havent won a thing since. I think the premature rolling cursed me.
Now the one who wins is my mother. Yes, shes had a good winning streak. She also gets "lucky fingers Mikaela" to roll her rims. That kid never loses.
I think this is the only time I really drink tims coffee or tea though. I enjoy the excitement of rolling the rim, even if I know I wont win.



a sad roll-up-the-rim-er is going to try to win again!

Computer art...

Hope you enjoyed my art. I love photoshop, dont know what I would do without it.
You also have mail coming, mom and I sent it this morning. Also, made sure the flower lady was booked for the wedding. So glad I am done with picking flowers....never thought there would be so much you needed to know about them. I dont have a clue what half the names of the flowers are, or what they look like as long as they are pretty I dont care. At the meeting we had with her, it felt like I had to care about every little flower in the wedding. Pffft! dont care, make it pretty and have some blue flowers in it so it matches the colours. Oh well, should look really nice now. Got my favourites in there (lillies). Love the smell of those.
I shall be off, momma has leftover chilli warming up, and I am hungry!

Be My Scape - Reliant K

:D I get to see these guys tonight!!! This is one of my favourite songs from them. Mikaela is so excited! Shes bringing most of her money so she can buy a music book and a t shirt.
After the concert, we are staying the night in vancouver and then going shopping for Mikaela at metrotown for a dress for the wedding. Everything is about her pretty much, and shes loving every minute of it.

After easter...

Feel a little sick from eating bunny, and the sugar rush is wearing off, and now the sleepy feeling is setting in....
Church was good, there were like 12 children in the nursery where mik was helping for the first time. It was a little overwhelming to see them all screaming at the end. She said they were good until the last 5 min. Poor kidlets.
One was making noise just because and it sounded like crying, but it wasnt. what a cutie.
Tony was there, and he was a little scared of all the kids crying all at once. It was pretty loud, even for me. Told him not to worry, as we wont have 12 kids all crying at once.
Made him feel better, but not much.

Snow and birdies!

While I was sitting at work trapped inside when there was snow to be played in, Mom and Dad went out to Princeton.

They didnt think it would keep snowing, well they were wrong. Time to test out the new van's brakes and such. Man freak snowfall was amazing.

They got some cool pics out there.

I remember icicles as big as me. That one came close to being half her size!

There was also this very bold birdy that came right up on my dad's hand to eat some crumbs. Pretty fat birdy. I thought rw's little one would appreciate the bird after what happened in her last post.

Feeding the birds reminds me of Mary Poppins! Feed the birds tuppins a day!

*and why does blogger put extra spaces in my paragraphs after inserting pictures! Frustrating!

dreaming of rats...

The other night I was sleeping, I heard a rustle. I live in a basement with ugly faux wood walls and a drop ceiling. Well, noises dont bother me normally, except it was a noise from over my head. It was scratching scuffling noises. I had the blanket over my head incase a rat dropped from the ceiling onto my bed. Nothing dropped, the noise went away, but it was a eerie feeling afterwards, and for the next few nights.

Well, I was in bed last night, almost asleep, and it came back! Scuffle! Scratch! I was not going to live in fear tonight! Quietly, I creeped out of bed, and turned on the light. No noise.....and then a MEOW! Well, the sneaky white cat was in the ceiling. I didnt see her at first, I saw her in the reflection of the mirrors.

CREEPY CAT! I pulled her out of the ceiling, and proceeded to boot her out of my room. Well, she didnt want that, she ran to the bed, cleaned her dusty self off and went to sleep.

She wanted in the room! I always close the door, and shes not the type of cat to scratch on the door, she has in the past head butted herself in, but never meow or scratch. Silly! I think I will have to get used to leaving the door open or else have nighttime creepers in the ceiling.

Whos this Cutie???

Pretty isnt he? Well, I wouldnt call him pretty, but unique is a very good answer for those who would avoid hurting the artist's feelings. He used to be a snake, as you can see with the highlighted red.

Way back in the day, Aria and I would entertain eachother when we were bored by playing drawing games. Sometimes I would tell her what to draw and she would have to draw it with her eyes closed. The requests got harder as we got older, but soon we were getting too good. So the newest game we played was that one would draw a scribble or line, and the other would have to make a picture out of it. At first we drew simple things, shapes, flowers, snails, easy stuff. The scribbles got a lot harder, but the game got more interesting and detailed.

We started playing with Mikaela at church. Mik doesnt have a sunday school class yet, so she colours. Well, she gets pretty bored of colouring. The bulletins have gotten pretty detailed over the past few months. Mom has gotten in on the game as well while listening to the service.

Today, Mik and I were doodling and mom felt left out. She was bored, and started adding on to Mikaela's Snake. While mom was adding lumps and hairs to the tail, I would whisper to her about adding nubbly wings or a horn. She was tearing up trying not to burst out laughing. She ended up with the lovely creation above. The horse thing, with runners.

Here are some close ups of the scribble game:

(I drew this one, it was hard because the scribble had a loop on it)

Mom did this one, again with the loops!

Mik made sure the punk rocker had all the required piercings.

Vampire Cat! Mom did this one, I told her to add fangs, but instead she gave it a tounge. This one had potential to be a real evil looking fella.

a little tid bit of info...

Mikaela figures polka dots are called "Polk-la dots".
Funny girl.

Introducing...

These are the tastey chocolate cookie treats that Australian's use to dip or suck coffee through. Found these last night in superstore.

(click to enlarge)

Dont know how to use them when I tried sucking tea through the cookie like Aria said, it went to mush! Blech! They are a good cookie to dunk in things. Mom likes them, but she thinks that theres no way to suck coffee through them. I think we are doing it wrong. Mikaela was not so impressed with them.

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Stories from Grandma

I took this video of Grandma Abrahams about a year or 2 ago. It was not too long after Grandpa passed away. Aria and I had just figured out how to use video, and tested it out on ourselves, and then without her knowing, we videoed Grandma telling stories to Mik. We always love hearing about when they were growing up, they have so many neat things to tell.
One of my favourites was listening to grandma tell us about how her and her family would ride in a sleigh at christmas time and how there was a little stove in that sleigh. She has the advertisement for the auction they had when they sold it and a few other items so they could travel from Sask. to BC.
I wish I knew how to rotate the video, but alas, I cannot figure it out. So all you watching will have to tilt your heads sideways.

The smelly dimpled one is.......

Mikaela!!!

Fractured her foot falling off the steps at school, and the girl walked all the way home on her gimpy foot. Poor thing, I on the other hand, would have laid on the ground crying uncontrolably until mom came to get me. A new mascara made miks pain lessen a little. (She can only wear it at home as she is 11 still.)

What hobbles on one leg, smells funny, and has dimples?

You will find out in the next post....